It's week 3 of our Found Footage February coverage and our lead has gone cold... Clark will shine a light on what I'm referring to at the beginning of the episode, and after that Madeleine Koestner returns to join us on a trip to France as we speak to the director/writer/star of Descent into Darkness: My European Nightmare, Rafael Cherkaski!
Learn how Truffant, Cassavettes, Kurosawa, and the comedy stylings of Chaplin/Keaton inspired a French filmmaker to lose 55lbs, capture 90+ hours of footage on 2 cameras, and spend 1000 euros on an ending that was later cut over the 4 years spent editing the film! Rafael is a perfect example of a filmmaker using the medium as a narrative tool.
Listeners be warned, the only way we could make contact with Rafael was over Facebook messager and it's not the clearest connection in the world.
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